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Google Science Fair 2012 Teams Up With Mindstorms

This year, Google’s science fair teams up with LEGO Mindstorms. The Google Science fair, although limited to the younger among us, always generates a great list of good and innovative ideas.

This year, sponsored by LEGO Mindstorms, we will hopefully see some more applications of Mindstorms in the field of science. Sign up is ending the end of this month (for all you that are, or have kids that are between 14 and 18 years old).

There are some really nice projects and videos with background information from this one and previous Science Fairs, on the Science Fair Youtube channel.



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Addition to the Site: Latest Tech Podcasts

On the right column, I’ve added a list that displays the latest Tech Podcasts from several sites.

For now, I list the ones from:

“Gweek is a weekly podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff.”
The first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects, MAKE Magazine unites, inspires and informs a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. They also have a great youtube Channel and a ųTorrent app that will keep you up to date.
WIRED is the first word on how ideas and innovation are changing the world.
The BBC’s flagship tech TV show. On BBC Breakfast Sat 0645, Sun 0745; News Channel Sat0130, Sat/Sun1130, 1530 in the UK. Also on BBC World News, & iPlayer.
The Boagworld show is the longest running web design podcast and has something for everybody, whether you are a designer, developer or website owner

 

As soon as any other interesting ones appear, or come to my attention, I will add these to the list. You can hit the small RSS iconRSS next to the title to add the complete stream to your RSS Reader, Download software, etc.

It was quite easy to create a single RSS Stream using Yahoo pipes, I’ll post about that soon! 



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Raspberry Pi for sale – First case Mods

Only after a couple of days the raspberry Pi is available for sale the first case mod’s have appeared in the wild.

Raspberry Pi case Mod

This one in particular is sold on EBay. Bidding starts at £0.99

From the Vendor’s description:

  • Made entirely from recycled materials, this wonderful designer sheaf will bring your new Raspberry Pi computer to life.
  • This special casing has a foil backed paper lining which may or may not stop your weirdly small computer from bursting in to flames.
  • This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a collector’s item alpha-prototype case.

The Raspberry Pi is a mini-pc (85.60 × 53.98 mm) that is sold for the cost of approx 30€/25$. For that money you get 108op Video on an HDMI port, USB, Wireless and/or Ethernet, an ARM MHz processor and 128 or 256 MB of RAM. All this very capable of running a decent Linux Machine.

 



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Analog/Digital Outrun (1986) By Arduino

Most of the people who played with computers in the 80′s have played and enjoyed Outrun. Youtube user Amandris published a video of his latest creation. he built a “real world” Outrun game, controlled by Arduino.

Not much more to explain, watch the video and enjoy!

Link: Amandris Via: Microsiervos



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Something Negative Becomes Positive

Believe me, I’ve looked quite a few times at the picture that came out of my LEGO Mindstorms Pinhole camera, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I realized that the print is in Negative. Of course!

After creating a positive using 1 single Gimp function, here’s the result:

Laundry Pinhole Photo in Positive

 



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